Carlton Grant Jr., J.R. Silvera, Ky-Mani Marley

Kingston, Jamaica is a breeding ground for great music, great food, great style and great shottas--young, homegrown Jamaican gangsters. Biggs and Wayne grew up together on the tough and dangerous stre...( read more  read more... )ets of Kingston. Hoping for a better life, with limited possibilities on the horizon, they rob a soda truck and manage to grab enough money to purchase visas to take them to a better life in the United States. Their dream doesn't go as planned. After hustling in the drug world of Miami gets them into trouble, the young men are deported--sent back to Jamaica with empty pockets and dashed hopes. But shottas can always find a way. Back home, with the complicity of local politicians and the export money from local businesses, they start building their way back to the lifestyle they had made for themselves in Miami. All goes well until the crime rate surges as rivals in Kingston's underworld resent their new homegrown success. The heat is on to put an end to the cycle of crime and violence, and a local politician, in exchange for his life, arranges to buy visas back to the States so Biggs and his crew can re-establish themselves in Miami. The growing body count from warfare instigated by their powerful return to the Miami scene carries a heavy burden, a burden that only a shottas can bear.

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Cess Silvera

Release Date: November 3, 2006

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DVD Release Date: January 2, 2007

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  • October 7, 2009
    i really love this movie
  • September 27, 2009
    dats da shit rite thurr
  • August 28, 2009
    Love this movie, I have see it like 1000 time but it still good Ky-mani is the sexies jamaican guy ever, damn he so sexy
  • August 20, 2009
    this is wt they call it a real gangsta movie !!
  • July 5, 2009
    This is one of the best movies I ever saw!!!
  • May 22, 2009
    i really liked this movie!
  • May 6, 2009
    Must have in everyone's collection. It is the New Age Scarface.
  • April 2, 2009
    this is the movie for real

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October 31, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

Stephen Marley's vociferous reggae-rap soundtrack makes painfully literal the film's The Harder They Come-Get Rich or Die Tryin' hybridization. full review

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